Motivational Quotes

Courage

The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

- Stockman, Ralph W.

Best Quotes about Courage

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von